giblets n.
1. the male genitals.
Proverbs II Ch. iiii: Set the hares head against the gose jiblet. She is (quoth he) bent to fors you perfors / To know, that the grey mare is the better hors. |
2. (also jiblets) the intestines; thus an obese man.
Dramatis Personae, ‘Flight of the Duchess’ n.p.: Is pumped up briskly through the main ventricle, And floats me genially round the giblets [F&H]. | ||
Sandburrs 165: ‘Have youse torn off that epitaph for his jiblets?’ asked the Undertaker, nodding towards the Deceased. | ‘Arabella Weld’||
Speed Detective Aug. 🌐 So he proceeded to put a bullet in Barrio’s giblets, hoping I would take the rap. | ‘Latin Blood’
3. by meton. one’s person .
Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 I still crave to know why you want me to guard a guy whose giblets you detest. | ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’
4. the vagina, esp. with pronounced labia.
Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 15: giblets n. A club sandwich; a ragman’s coat (qv). |
In compounds
sexual intercourse.
🌐 Please, please have a bit of giblet pie, while you fondle my filthy pillows. I have desires to bump uglies with you in my dreams [...] Do you feel the same way?? | Maureen’s Lusty Confessions
(US) an un-named individual.
Nat. Police Gaz. 20 Oct. 6/3: ‘Cheese it! His Giblets!’. | ||
Helena Wkly Herald (MT) 24 Jan. 1/1: The one has a divine mustache, / The other money bags; / I hesiatte ’twixt love and cash, / His giblets or his jags. | ||
Delphos Dly Herald (OH) 19 Aug. 6/7: ‘His nibs, his giblets was dorwned! [...] He’d been lushing in de Blazing Rag saloon and couldn’t navigate his pins’. | ||
Palladium-Item (Richmond, IN) 26 Jan. 8/4: The Iceman [...] During summer’s three ring show / Then his giblets owns the town, / But when it is ten below / Any one can call him down. | ||
Parsons Dly Sun (KS) 26 Feb. 8/8: [advert] And with a Sweet Smile his Financial Giblets stepped into his Ford and Rolled down the Avenue. | ||
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) 7 Apr. 5/3: He spied a smouldering, sizzling pile of stuff in one corner and asked His Royal Giblets what that was. |
In phrases
1. to have sexual intercourse.
Juniper Lecture 213: The Marriage was ended and Giblets were joyn’d. | ||
Wits Paraphras’d 73: Let us, since thou hast got my heart, / Joyn Giblets once, and never part. | ||
London Terraefilius V 25: She is running full Tilt to Beveridge’s Buttock-Ball to hop away Six-penny worth of Country Dances, and afterwards to join Jiblets with my Lord Swivelton’s Vallet. | ||
Female Grievances debated 84: [They] pine and whine, and languish after a Person who, perhaps would be equally glad to join Giblets with them. | ||
Harlot’s Progress 29: The Articles wre seal’d and sign’d, / The Palce appointed; Giblets join’d. | ||
Stratford Jubilee II i 29: If your ladyship’s not engaged, what’s the reason but we may join giblets without any pribble-prabble? [OED]. | ||
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 300: This hubble-bubble they had coin’d, / By getting both their giblets join’d. | ||
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: To join giblets; said of a man and woman who cohabit as husband and wife, without being married; also to copulate. | |
Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 46: [as cit. 1772]. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 119: Mix giblets — to intermarry ? naturally or legally. | ||
N&Q Ser. 7 IV 511: ‘To join giblets’ – This expression may occasionally be heard in this district, among the lowest and vulgarest, and has a very offensive meaning [F&H]. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 81: Coupler (se). To copulate; ‘to join giblets’. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 285: ...the only creatures of his own species he could bear to rub offal with were those horse-faced county gels with enormous teeth. |
2. to cohabit with or without being married.
, , , | see sense 1. | |
Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 119: Mix giblets — to intermarry — naturally or legally. | ||
Manchester Times 2 Oct. 7/4: The aimiable parties ‘join giblets’ without a comment being made by their relatives or neighbours. | ||
Wrexham Advertiser 25 Mar. 5/2: A man [...] applied at the workhouse for a wife, and one of the inmates felt inclined to join giblets with him. |
3. to form a partnership.
Leeds Times 3 Apr. 5/4: Let them join giblets by all means. | ||
Huddersfield Chron. 20 Feb. 3/5: Let’s think no more about it, but join giblets to rob the natives here. | ||
Preston Chron. 6 June 3/4: ‘Just the man,’ said the itinerant apothecary; ‘let us join giblets and we will make a good thing of it’. | ||
Preston Chron. 15 Mar. 6/1: The Dissenting ministers want to join giblets; that’s the short of it. | ||
Lichfield Mercury 29 May 6/4: Zo we shall join giblets, and set up our traps together. |